Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
About: Green Mountain Energy is the nation’s longest serving renewable energy retailer and believes in using wind, sun and water for good. The company was founded in 1997 with the mission to “change the way power is made.” Green Mountain offers consumers and businesses the choice of cleaner electricity products from renewable sources, as well as carbon offsets and sustainable solutions for businesses.
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View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-solar-panels-work-richard-komp
The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

published:05 Jan 2016

views:1692881

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

published:19 Oct 2015

views:1169226

In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Renewable Energy. But how do they actually do it? What’s their secret?
Thanks toMiguelFranco for helping to make this episode possible
https://www.youtube.com/user/marioofsevenstars
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There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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published:21 Sep 2017

views:102964

Today I wrap up my renewable energy series with a look at solar vs wind energy. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe
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https://yearbook.enerdata.net
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
TRANSCRIPT:
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens called the US the Saudi Arabia of wind and when you see maps like this, you understand why.
As the Earth spins toward the west, it slides underneath the air in the atmosphere, giving it from our perspective a generally eastward direction.
That easterly wind sweeps over the rocky mountains and then rushes back down across the Great Plains, creating one of the largest wind corridors in the world.
And in the last 10 years, investments in commercial wind energy have boomed across the United States. Economies of scale have started to kick in, causing the price of wind turbines to drop.
They also cost little to maintain and operate and help create energy independence for smaller communities and provide a revenue source for local ranchers who lease out the land to the energy companies.
And they’re more space-efficient. On the ground they take up very little space and those ranchers can still use the land below them for agriculture.
Plus it’s a large growth sector for jobs and currently employs over 100,000 people, expected to rise up to 600,000 in the next 30 years.
And there’s a reason I saved saved solar for last. Because there’s something different about solar from all other forms of energy, clean or dirty.
Photovoltaic solar panels, or PV panels, have no moving parts.
Every other energy source creates electricity by using heat or steam or water or wind to turn a turbine. Solar literally just collects the energy coming out of the sun and repurposes it.
When asked if he was interested in fusion power as a source of energy, Elon Musk famously said that we already have a massive fusion reactor in the sky just feeding us energy every day. All we have to do is collect it.
Now there are some negatives to solar power, let’s just get that out of the way…
First the obvious one, there’s no sun at night, so solar power is intermittent. But intermittent more like tidal energy than wind energy because we know the sun will be coming up every day.
And even in cloudy weather, it is producing something.
They take up a lot of land, unlike wind farms mentioned earlier, if you have a solar farm, you can’t use that for other things.
But, you can also use existing infrastructure like buildings and transport corridors.
The big hangups come in the construction of the solar panels because there are some hazardous materials used that need to be properly disposed of at the end of the panel’s life span.
And some PV panels require rare Elements like those found in cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper iridium gallium selenide (CIGS), which is all the more reason to recycle the panels properly.
Luckily, 96% of a solar panel can be recycled. Unfortunately, the recycling infrastructure for solar panels is pretty small, but expected to grow tremendously in the next 30 years.
But the one that gets the solar haters the most worked up is that producing solar panels does generate greenhouse gasses. Specifically nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride. And yes, that sucks.
But the argument that we should stick with something like coal because PV panels create greenhouse gasses is frankly absurd.
Because with the solar panels, it’s a one-shot deal and then you’re getting clean, free energy for the next 20 or 30 years, while coal is constantly pumping out greenhouse gasses that whole time.
This debate was laid to rest by Wilfried Van Sark of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In a paper for the trade Nature Communications, he and his team calculated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by PV panel production all the way back to 1975 to see how long it would take before they made back their debt.
I didn’t even mention the other type of solar energy, concentrated solar thermal plants.

Using a demonstration model, NMSUProfessorThomas Jenkins describes the different components of a home photovoltaic system that also includes battery storage.

published:14 Feb 2012

views:15550

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
For more information visit http://Edmonton.ca/RenewableSeries
To read more about Gordon’s vision please check our Transforming Edmonton blog post: http://transformingedmonton.ca/household-solar-renewable/
Produced by The City of Edmonton and Sticks & Stones

Solar Renewable Energy Certificate

Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) or Solar Renewable Energy Credits are a form of Renewable Energy Certificate or "Green tag". SRECs exist in states that have Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) legislation with specific requirements for solar energy, usually referred to as a "solar carve-out". The additional income received from selling SRECs increases the economic value of a solar investment and assists with the financing of solar technology. In conjunction with state and federal incentives, solar system owners can recover their investment in solar by selling their SRECs through spot market sales or long-term sales, both described below.

Specifications

SRECs represent the environmental attributes from a solar facility, and are produced each time a solar system produces one thousand Kilowatt-hours (KWh) of electricity. For every 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity produced by an eligible solar facility, one SREC is awarded. In order for a solar facility to be credited with that SREC, the system must be certified and registered.

Renewable Energy 101: Solar Power

Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
About: Green Mountain Energy is the nation’s longest serving renewable energy retailer and believes in using wind, sun and water for good. The company was founded in 1997 with the mission to “change the way power is made.” Green Mountain offers consumers and businesses the choice of cleaner electricity products from renewable sources, as well as carbon offsets and sustainable solutions for businesses.
More from Green Mountain Energy!
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Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Ovf9AV
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Instagram: http://bit.ly/1g7xE2t

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-solar-panels-work-richard-komp
The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

4:24

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Script:
Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

14:29

Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?

Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?

Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?

In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Renewable Energy. But how do they actually do it? What’s their secret?
Thanks toMiguelFranco for helping to make this episode possible
https://www.youtube.com/user/marioofsevenstars
SpecialThanks To:
Neile Lunderville, Miro Weinberger, Mike Kanarick, Dave MacDonnell, Jon Clark and the Burlington Electric Department
https://www.burlingtonelectric.com/
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Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe
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Select footage courtesy NASA
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Renewable Energy101 | National Geographic
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National Geographic
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11:32

Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

Today I wrap up my renewable energy series with a look at solar vs wind energy. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe
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https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-domestic-consumption-data.html
http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GSR_2016_Full_Report.pdf
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption-statistics.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-potential-of-solar-power-2015-9
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-production.html
https://yearbook.enerdata.net
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
TRANSCRIPT:
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens called the US the Saudi Arabia of wind and when you see maps like this, you understand why.
As the Earth spins toward the west, it slides underneath the air in the atmosphere, giving it from our perspective a generally eastward direction.
That easterly wind sweeps over the rocky mountains and then rushes back down across the Great Plains, creating one of the largest wind corridors in the world.
And in the last 10 years, investments in commercial wind energy have boomed across the United States. Economies of scale have started to kick in, causing the price of wind turbines to drop.
They also cost little to maintain and operate and help create energy independence for smaller communities and provide a revenue source for local ranchers who lease out the land to the energy companies.
And they’re more space-efficient. On the ground they take up very little space and those ranchers can still use the land below them for agriculture.
Plus it’s a large growth sector for jobs and currently employs over 100,000 people, expected to rise up to 600,000 in the next 30 years.
And there’s a reason I saved saved solar for last. Because there’s something different about solar from all other forms of energy, clean or dirty.
Photovoltaic solar panels, or PV panels, have no moving parts.
Every other energy source creates electricity by using heat or steam or water or wind to turn a turbine. Solar literally just collects the energy coming out of the sun and repurposes it.
When asked if he was interested in fusion power as a source of energy, Elon Musk famously said that we already have a massive fusion reactor in the sky just feeding us energy every day. All we have to do is collect it.
Now there are some negatives to solar power, let’s just get that out of the way…
First the obvious one, there’s no sun at night, so solar power is intermittent. But intermittent more like tidal energy than wind energy because we know the sun will be coming up every day.
And even in cloudy weather, it is producing something.
They take up a lot of land, unlike wind farms mentioned earlier, if you have a solar farm, you can’t use that for other things.
But, you can also use existing infrastructure like buildings and transport corridors.
The big hangups come in the construction of the solar panels because there are some hazardous materials used that need to be properly disposed of at the end of the panel’s life span.
And some PV panels require rare Elements like those found in cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper iridium gallium selenide (CIGS), which is all the more reason to recycle the panels properly.
Luckily, 96% of a solar panel can be recycled. Unfortunately, the recycling infrastructure for solar panels is pretty small, but expected to grow tremendously in the next 30 years.
But the one that gets the solar haters the most worked up is that producing solar panels does generate greenhouse gasses. Specifically nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride. And yes, that sucks.
But the argument that we should stick with something like coal because PV panels create greenhouse gasses is frankly absurd.
Because with the solar panels, it’s a one-shot deal and then you’re getting clean, free energy for the next 20 or 30 years, while coal is constantly pumping out greenhouse gasses that whole time.
This debate was laid to rest by Wilfried Van Sark of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In a paper for the trade Nature Communications, he and his team calculated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by PV panel production all the way back to 1975 to see how long it would take before they made back their debt.
I didn’t even mention the other type of solar energy, concentrated solar thermal plants.

Renewable Energy: Solar Panel System Components

Using a demonstration model, NMSUProfessorThomas Jenkins describes the different components of a home photovoltaic system that also includes battery storage.

5:45

Household Solar - Renewable

Household Solar - Renewable

Household Solar - Renewable

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
For more information visit http://Edmonton.ca/RenewableSeries
To read more about Gordon’s vision please check our Transforming Edmonton blog post: http://transformingedmonton.ca/household-solar-renewable/
Produced by The City of Edmonton and Sticks & Stones

11:15

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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1:39

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
ExploreRenewables 2017 in more detail: www.iea.org/renewables

Renewable Energy 101: Solar Power

Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
About: Green Mountain Energy is the nation’s longest serving renewable energy retailer and believes in using wind, sun and water for good. The company was founded in 1997 with the mission to “change the way power is made.” Green Mountain offers consumers and businesses the choice of cleaner electricity products from renewable sources, as well as carbon offsets and sustainable solutions for businesses.
More from Green Mountain Energy!
Website: http://bit.ly/1IKvQId
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Ovf9AV
...

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-solar-panels-work-richard-komp
The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

published: 05 Jan 2016

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2ylo1Yt
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Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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Renewable Energy: Solar Panel System Components

Using a demonstration model, NMSUProfessorThomas Jenkins describes the different components of a home photovoltaic system that also includes battery storage.

published: 14 Feb 2012

Household Solar - Renewable

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
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published: 27 Jun 2017

Solar Energy

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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published: 09 Jan 2012

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
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Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
About: Green Mountain Energy is the nation’s longest serving renewable energy retailer and believes in using wind, sun and water for good. The company was founded in 1997 with the mission to “change the way power is made.” Green Mountain offers consumers and businesses the choice of cleaner electricity products from renewable sources, as well as carbon offsets and sustainable solutions for businesses.
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Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
About: Green Mountain Energy is the nation’s longest serving renewable energy retailer and believes in using wind, sun and water for good. The company was founded in 1997 with the mission to “change the way power is made.” Green Mountain offers consumers and businesses the choice of cleaner electricity products from renewable sources, as well as carbon offsets and sustainable solutions for businesses.
More from Green Mountain Energy!
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View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-solar-panels-work-richard-komp
The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

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The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclea...

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Renewable Energy. But how do they actually do it? What’s their secret?
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In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Renewable Energy. But how do they actually do it? What’s their secret?
Thanks toMiguelFranco for helping to make this episode possible
https://www.youtube.com/user/marioofsevenstars
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Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-gro...

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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Renewable Energy101 | National Geographic
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National Geographic
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There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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Renewable Energy101 | National Geographic
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Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

Today I wrap up my renewable energy series with a look at solar vs wind energy. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe
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LINKS LINKS LINKS:
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-domestic-consumption-data.html
http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GSR_2016_Full_Report.pdf
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption-statistics.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-potential-of-solar-power-2015-9
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-production.html
https://yearbook.enerdata.net
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
TRANSCRIPT:
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens called the US the Saudi Arabia of wind and when you see maps like this, you understand why.
As the Earth spins toward the west, it slides underneath the air in the atmosphere, giving it from our perspective a generally eastward direction.
That easterly wind sweeps over the rocky mountains and then rushes back down across the Great Plains, creating one of the largest wind corridors in the world.
And in the last 10 years, investments in commercial wind energy have boomed across the United States. Economies of scale have started to kick in, causing the price of wind turbines to drop.
They also cost little to maintain and operate and help create energy independence for smaller communities and provide a revenue source for local ranchers who lease out the land to the energy companies.
And they’re more space-efficient. On the ground they take up very little space and those ranchers can still use the land below them for agriculture.
Plus it’s a large growth sector for jobs and currently employs over 100,000 people, expected to rise up to 600,000 in the next 30 years.
And there’s a reason I saved saved solar for last. Because there’s something different about solar from all other forms of energy, clean or dirty.
Photovoltaic solar panels, or PV panels, have no moving parts.
Every other energy source creates electricity by using heat or steam or water or wind to turn a turbine. Solar literally just collects the energy coming out of the sun and repurposes it.
When asked if he was interested in fusion power as a source of energy, Elon Musk famously said that we already have a massive fusion reactor in the sky just feeding us energy every day. All we have to do is collect it.
Now there are some negatives to solar power, let’s just get that out of the way…
First the obvious one, there’s no sun at night, so solar power is intermittent. But intermittent more like tidal energy than wind energy because we know the sun will be coming up every day.
And even in cloudy weather, it is producing something.
They take up a lot of land, unlike wind farms mentioned earlier, if you have a solar farm, you can’t use that for other things.
But, you can also use existing infrastructure like buildings and transport corridors.
The big hangups come in the construction of the solar panels because there are some hazardous materials used that need to be properly disposed of at the end of the panel’s life span.
And some PV panels require rare Elements like those found in cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper iridium gallium selenide (CIGS), which is all the more reason to recycle the panels properly.
Luckily, 96% of a solar panel can be recycled. Unfortunately, the recycling infrastructure for solar panels is pretty small, but expected to grow tremendously in the next 30 years.
But the one that gets the solar haters the most worked up is that producing solar panels does generate greenhouse gasses. Specifically nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride. And yes, that sucks.
But the argument that we should stick with something like coal because PV panels create greenhouse gasses is frankly absurd.
Because with the solar panels, it’s a one-shot deal and then you’re getting clean, free energy for the next 20 or 30 years, while coal is constantly pumping out greenhouse gasses that whole time.
This debate was laid to rest by Wilfried Van Sark of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In a paper for the trade Nature Communications, he and his team calculated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by PV panel production all the way back to 1975 to see how long it would take before they made back their debt.
I didn’t even mention the other type of solar energy, concentrated solar thermal plants.

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http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GSR_2016_Full_Report.pdf
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption-statistics.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-potential-of-solar-power-2015-9
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-production.html
https://yearbook.enerdata.net
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
TRANSCRIPT:
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens called the US the Saudi Arabia of wind and when you see maps like this, you understand why.
As the Earth spins toward the west, it slides underneath the air in the atmosphere, giving it from our perspective a generally eastward direction.
That easterly wind sweeps over the rocky mountains and then rushes back down across the Great Plains, creating one of the largest wind corridors in the world.
And in the last 10 years, investments in commercial wind energy have boomed across the United States. Economies of scale have started to kick in, causing the price of wind turbines to drop.
They also cost little to maintain and operate and help create energy independence for smaller communities and provide a revenue source for local ranchers who lease out the land to the energy companies.
And they’re more space-efficient. On the ground they take up very little space and those ranchers can still use the land below them for agriculture.
Plus it’s a large growth sector for jobs and currently employs over 100,000 people, expected to rise up to 600,000 in the next 30 years.
And there’s a reason I saved saved solar for last. Because there’s something different about solar from all other forms of energy, clean or dirty.
Photovoltaic solar panels, or PV panels, have no moving parts.
Every other energy source creates electricity by using heat or steam or water or wind to turn a turbine. Solar literally just collects the energy coming out of the sun and repurposes it.
When asked if he was interested in fusion power as a source of energy, Elon Musk famously said that we already have a massive fusion reactor in the sky just feeding us energy every day. All we have to do is collect it.
Now there are some negatives to solar power, let’s just get that out of the way…
First the obvious one, there’s no sun at night, so solar power is intermittent. But intermittent more like tidal energy than wind energy because we know the sun will be coming up every day.
And even in cloudy weather, it is producing something.
They take up a lot of land, unlike wind farms mentioned earlier, if you have a solar farm, you can’t use that for other things.
But, you can also use existing infrastructure like buildings and transport corridors.
The big hangups come in the construction of the solar panels because there are some hazardous materials used that need to be properly disposed of at the end of the panel’s life span.
And some PV panels require rare Elements like those found in cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper iridium gallium selenide (CIGS), which is all the more reason to recycle the panels properly.
Luckily, 96% of a solar panel can be recycled. Unfortunately, the recycling infrastructure for solar panels is pretty small, but expected to grow tremendously in the next 30 years.
But the one that gets the solar haters the most worked up is that producing solar panels does generate greenhouse gasses. Specifically nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride. And yes, that sucks.
But the argument that we should stick with something like coal because PV panels create greenhouse gasses is frankly absurd.
Because with the solar panels, it’s a one-shot deal and then you’re getting clean, free energy for the next 20 or 30 years, while coal is constantly pumping out greenhouse gasses that whole time.
This debate was laid to rest by Wilfried Van Sark of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In a paper for the trade Nature Communications, he and his team calculated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by PV panel production all the way back to 1975 to see how long it would take before they made back their debt.
I didn’t even mention the other type of solar energy, concentrated solar thermal plants.

Household Solar - Renewable

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for...

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
For more information visit http://Edmonton.ca/RenewableSeries
To read more about Gordon’s vision please check our Transforming Edmonton blog post: http://transformingedmonton.ca/household-solar-renewable/
Produced by The City of Edmonton and Sticks & Stones

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
For more information visit http://Edmonton.ca/RenewableSeries
To read more about Gordon’s vision please check our Transforming Edmonton blog post: http://transformingedmonton.ca/household-solar-renewable/
Produced by The City of Edmonton and Sticks & Stones

Solar Energy

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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Join Dahl Winters, from the Research Triangle Institute, as she explains the fundamentals of solar photovoltaics and gives a hands-on demonstration on how to build a solar iPad charger.
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Part of the NCSSM Renewable EnergySeminar series, this presentation was recorded at NC School of Science and Math, March 29, 2012. For more information on professional development opportunities in STEM education, visit: http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/stem/workshops-webinars-conferences
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Webinar: 100% Renewable Energy for Islands

A number of Island countries have ambitious targets of 100% RE for their electricity generation. This webinar will showcase how this has been technically achieved on King Island and what is planned for Flinders Island (two Islands off Tasmania). We will then move to the Pacific Islands and discuss in detail Tokelau and Tuvalu followed by provide an overview of the RE targets for a number of Pacific Islands and the projects being undertaken to help them meet these targets.

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Webinar: 175 GW of Renewable Power, Including Addition of 100 GW Solar in India by the Year

The Indian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW of renewable power, which includes 100 GWp of solar power by the year 2022. 175 GW of Renewable Energy(RE) power would roughly need around US$200 billion of investment, including funds for manufacturing and infrastructure. Direct investments required for power plants would be to the tune of US$150 billion. The Indian Government is contemplating a US$ 1 billion (Rs 6700 Crore) fund to finance RE projects.
The percentage share of RE in the Indian total power generation has increased from 4.97% in 2012-13 to about 5.7%, as on February 2016. The year 2015-2016 has been remarkable for RE development in India, which witnessed the highest ever solar and wind power capacity addition in a year of 3.01 GW in solar and 3.42 GW in w...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is developing rapidly, with strong economic growth projected to continue in the short and medium term. Economic development and population growth, however, have come with an increase in the demand for electrical power, much of which is needed to desalinate water. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has recently announced their strategic decision to diversify their energy mix in an attempt to meet this demand while also creating new economic sectors in the country. Abdulrahman Al Ghabban presents Saudi Arabia's renewable energy roadmap to generate 54.1 GW of renewable electricity by 2032 and discusses the country's future energy mix.
Speaker:
Abdulrahman O. Al-Ghabban,
Strategic and technical consultant,
King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy.

Join Dahl Winters, from the Research Triangle Institute, as she explains the fundamentals of solar photovoltaics and gives a hands-on demonstration on how to build a solar iPad charger.
NCSSM, a publicly funded high school in North Carolina, provides exciting, high-level STEM learning opportunities. If you appreciate this video, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the NCSSM Foundation. Thank you! https://connections.ncssm.edu/giving
Part of the NCSSM Renewable EnergySeminar series, this presentation was recorded at NC School of Science and Math, March 29, 2012. For more information on professional development opportunities in STEM education, visit: http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/stem/workshops-webinars-conferences
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Join Dahl Winters, from the Research Triangle Institute, as she explains the fundamentals of solar photovoltaics and gives a hands-on demonstration on how to build a solar iPad charger.
NCSSM, a publicly funded high school in North Carolina, provides exciting, high-level STEM learning opportunities. If you appreciate this video, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the NCSSM Foundation. Thank you! https://connections.ncssm.edu/giving
Part of the NCSSM Renewable EnergySeminar series, this presentation was recorded at NC School of Science and Math, March 29, 2012. For more information on professional development opportunities in STEM education, visit: http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/stem/workshops-webinars-conferences
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Webinar: 100% Renewable Energy for Islands

A number of Island countries have ambitious targets of 100% RE for their electricity generation. This webinar will showcase how this has been technically achiev...

A number of Island countries have ambitious targets of 100% RE for their electricity generation. This webinar will showcase how this has been technically achieved on King Island and what is planned for Flinders Island (two Islands off Tasmania). We will then move to the Pacific Islands and discuss in detail Tokelau and Tuvalu followed by provide an overview of the RE targets for a number of Pacific Islands and the projects being undertaken to help them meet these targets.

A number of Island countries have ambitious targets of 100% RE for their electricity generation. This webinar will showcase how this has been technically achieved on King Island and what is planned for Flinders Island (two Islands off Tasmania). We will then move to the Pacific Islands and discuss in detail Tokelau and Tuvalu followed by provide an overview of the RE targets for a number of Pacific Islands and the projects being undertaken to help them meet these targets.

Webinar: 175 GW of Renewable Power, Including Addition of 100 GW Solar in India by the Year

The Indian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW of renewable power, which includes 100 GWp of solar power by the year 2022. 175 GW of Renewa...

The Indian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW of renewable power, which includes 100 GWp of solar power by the year 2022. 175 GW of Renewable Energy(RE) power would roughly need around US$200 billion of investment, including funds for manufacturing and infrastructure. Direct investments required for power plants would be to the tune of US$150 billion. The Indian Government is contemplating a US$ 1 billion (Rs 6700 Crore) fund to finance RE projects.
The percentage share of RE in the Indian total power generation has increased from 4.97% in 2012-13 to about 5.7%, as on February 2016. The year 2015-2016 has been remarkable for RE development in India, which witnessed the highest ever solar and wind power capacity addition in a year of 3.01 GW in solar and 3.42 GW in wind power, while solar power capacity reaching 7.8 GWp by June, 2016.
Several steps have been taken by the Government of India to promote RE power such as the development of solar parks, ultra mega solar power projects and other schemes to promote RE.
This webinar, with experts from India, shall focus on what needs to be done now and over next years to achieve this target, while doing an introspection on the present status of RE sector in India.

The Indian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW of renewable power, which includes 100 GWp of solar power by the year 2022. 175 GW of Renewable Energy(RE) power would roughly need around US$200 billion of investment, including funds for manufacturing and infrastructure. Direct investments required for power plants would be to the tune of US$150 billion. The Indian Government is contemplating a US$ 1 billion (Rs 6700 Crore) fund to finance RE projects.
The percentage share of RE in the Indian total power generation has increased from 4.97% in 2012-13 to about 5.7%, as on February 2016. The year 2015-2016 has been remarkable for RE development in India, which witnessed the highest ever solar and wind power capacity addition in a year of 3.01 GW in solar and 3.42 GW in wind power, while solar power capacity reaching 7.8 GWp by June, 2016.
Several steps have been taken by the Government of India to promote RE power such as the development of solar parks, ultra mega solar power projects and other schemes to promote RE.
This webinar, with experts from India, shall focus on what needs to be done now and over next years to achieve this target, while doing an introspection on the present status of RE sector in India.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is developing rapidly, with strong economic growth projected to continue in the short and medium term. Economic development and population growth, however, have come with an increase in the demand for electrical power, much of which is needed to desalinate water. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has recently announced their strategic decision to diversify their energy mix in an attempt to meet this demand while also creating new economic sectors in the country. Abdulrahman Al Ghabban presents Saudi Arabia's renewable energy roadmap to generate 54.1 GW of renewable electricity by 2032 and discusses the country's future energy mix.
Speaker:
Abdulrahman O. Al-Ghabban,
Strategic and technical consultant,
King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is developing rapidly, with strong economic growth projected to continue in the short and medium term. Economic development and population growth, however, have come with an increase in the demand for electrical power, much of which is needed to desalinate water. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has recently announced their strategic decision to diversify their energy mix in an attempt to meet this demand while also creating new economic sectors in the country. Abdulrahman Al Ghabban presents Saudi Arabia's renewable energy roadmap to generate 54.1 GW of renewable electricity by 2032 and discusses the country's future energy mix.
Speaker:
Abdulrahman O. Al-Ghabban,
Strategic and technical consultant,
King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy.

Renewable Energy 101: Solar Power

Per the U.S.NationalRenewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the amount of energy from the sun that falls to the earth in one day could supply the entire world’s energy needs for 27 years!
Learn more about solar in this video, and visit http://greenmountainenergy.com/renewable101 for more.
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46:11

The breakthrough in renewable energy - (VPRO documentary - 2016)

It’s not in the papers but a silent revolution is moving across the world. Renewable energ...

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-solar-panels-work-richard-komp
The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
Lesson by Richard Komp, animation by Globizco.

4:24

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energ...

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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14:29

Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?

In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Rene...

Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?

In 2014 Burlington, Vermont became the first city in the United States to run on 100% Renewable Energy. But how do they actually do it? What’s their secret?
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Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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11:32

Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

Today I wrap up my renewable energy series with a look at solar vs wind energy. Support me...

Renewable Energy Series: Solar Vs Wind | Answers With Joe

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TRANSCRIPT:
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens called the US the Saudi Arabia of wind and when you see maps like this, you understand why.
As the Earth spins toward the west, it slides underneath the air in the atmosphere, giving it from our perspective a generally eastward direction.
That easterly wind sweeps over the rocky mountains and then rushes back down across the Great Plains, creating one of the largest wind corridors in the world.
And in the last 10 years, investments in commercial wind energy have boomed across the United States. Economies of scale have started to kick in, causing the price of wind turbines to drop.
They also cost little to maintain and operate and help create energy independence for smaller communities and provide a revenue source for local ranchers who lease out the land to the energy companies.
And they’re more space-efficient. On the ground they take up very little space and those ranchers can still use the land below them for agriculture.
Plus it’s a large growth sector for jobs and currently employs over 100,000 people, expected to rise up to 600,000 in the next 30 years.
And there’s a reason I saved saved solar for last. Because there’s something different about solar from all other forms of energy, clean or dirty.
Photovoltaic solar panels, or PV panels, have no moving parts.
Every other energy source creates electricity by using heat or steam or water or wind to turn a turbine. Solar literally just collects the energy coming out of the sun and repurposes it.
When asked if he was interested in fusion power as a source of energy, Elon Musk famously said that we already have a massive fusion reactor in the sky just feeding us energy every day. All we have to do is collect it.
Now there are some negatives to solar power, let’s just get that out of the way…
First the obvious one, there’s no sun at night, so solar power is intermittent. But intermittent more like tidal energy than wind energy because we know the sun will be coming up every day.
And even in cloudy weather, it is producing something.
They take up a lot of land, unlike wind farms mentioned earlier, if you have a solar farm, you can’t use that for other things.
But, you can also use existing infrastructure like buildings and transport corridors.
The big hangups come in the construction of the solar panels because there are some hazardous materials used that need to be properly disposed of at the end of the panel’s life span.
And some PV panels require rare Elements like those found in cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper iridium gallium selenide (CIGS), which is all the more reason to recycle the panels properly.
Luckily, 96% of a solar panel can be recycled. Unfortunately, the recycling infrastructure for solar panels is pretty small, but expected to grow tremendously in the next 30 years.
But the one that gets the solar haters the most worked up is that producing solar panels does generate greenhouse gasses. Specifically nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride. And yes, that sucks.
But the argument that we should stick with something like coal because PV panels create greenhouse gasses is frankly absurd.
Because with the solar panels, it’s a one-shot deal and then you’re getting clean, free energy for the next 20 or 30 years, while coal is constantly pumping out greenhouse gasses that whole time.
This debate was laid to rest by Wilfried Van Sark of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In a paper for the trade Nature Communications, he and his team calculated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by PV panel production all the way back to 1975 to see how long it would take before they made back their debt.
I didn’t even mention the other type of solar energy, concentrated solar thermal plants.

Household Solar - Renewable

“Solar energy isn’t snake oil and it’s not a panacea. It’s just a technology that generates clean electricity.”
Gordon Howell has a vision of a solar future for our city. Find out what that future looks like on this episode of Renewable.
Renewable is a series about visionaries, creators, community leaders and above all else, Edmontonians, each with a unique vision of a sustainable future in the heart of Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
For more information visit http://Edmonton.ca/RenewableSeries
To read more about Gordon’s vision please check our Transforming Edmonton blog post: http://transformingedmonton.ca/household-solar-renewable/
Produced by The City of Edmonton and Sticks & Stones

11:15

Solar Energy

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified ...

Solar Energy

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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1:39

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
Expl...

Join Dahl Winters, from the Research Triangle Institute, as she explains the fundamentals of solar photovoltaics and gives a hands-on demonstration on how to build a solar iPad charger.
NCSSM, a publicly funded high school in North Carolina, provides exciting, high-level STEM learning opportunities. If you appreciate this video, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the NCSSM Foundation. Thank you! https://connections.ncssm.edu/giving
Part of the NCSSM Renewable EnergySeminar series, this presentation was recorded at NC School of Science and Math, March 29, 2012. For more information on professional development opportunities in STEM education, visit: http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/stem/workshops-webinars-conferences
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Webinar: 100% Renewable Energy for Islands

A number of Island countries have ambitious targets of 100% RE for their electricity generation. This webinar will showcase how this has been technically achieved on King Island and what is planned for Flinders Island (two Islands off Tasmania). We will then move to the Pacific Islands and discuss in detail Tokelau and Tuvalu followed by provide an overview of the RE targets for a number of Pacific Islands and the projects being undertaken to help them meet these targets.

25:14

What’s New in Renewables?

The growth curves of wind and solar power are steep, as renewables spread quickly around t...

Webinar: 175 GW of Renewable Power, Including Addition of 100 GW Solar in India by the Year

The Indian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW of renewable power, which includes 100 GWp of solar power by the year 2022. 175 GW of Renewable Energy(RE) power would roughly need around US$200 billion of investment, including funds for manufacturing and infrastructure. Direct investments required for power plants would be to the tune of US$150 billion. The Indian Government is contemplating a US$ 1 billion (Rs 6700 Crore) fund to finance RE projects.
The percentage share of RE in the Indian total power generation has increased from 4.97% in 2012-13 to about 5.7%, as on February 2016. The year 2015-2016 has been remarkable for RE development in India, which witnessed the highest ever solar and wind power capacity addition in a year of 3.01 GW in solar and 3.42 GW in wind power, while solar power capacity reaching 7.8 GWp by June, 2016.
Several steps have been taken by the Government of India to promote RE power such as the development of solar parks, ultra mega solar power projects and other schemes to promote RE.
This webinar, with experts from India, shall focus on what needs to be done now and over next years to achieve this target, while doing an introspection on the present status of RE sector in India.

25:32

Watch How Renewable Energy is Powering Many Countries in The World

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is developing rapidly, with strong economic growth projected to continue in the short and medium term. Economic development and population growth, however, have come with an increase in the demand for electrical power, much of which is needed to desalinate water. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has recently announced their strategic decision to diversify their energy mix in an attempt to meet this demand while also creating new economic sectors in the country. Abdulrahman Al Ghabban presents Saudi Arabia's renewable energy roadmap to generate 54.1 GW of renewable electricity by 2032 and discusses the country's future energy mix.
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Abdulrahman O. Al-Ghabban,
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King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy.

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Could accountancy and solarenergy possibly have anything in common? The question might delight Chen Kangping, 45, a former accountant and professional manager, and now CEO of Shanghai-based JinkoSolar, the world's leading solar panel producer by shipments whose photoelectric conversion rate and component shipments also rank first worldwide....

Chief ScientistAlan Finkel has said the adoption of a more ambitious emissions reduction target "would have larger consequences for energy security" due to the greater share of renewables in the power mix ...CleanEnergyCouncil chief executive KaneThornton welcomed the household energy storage policy and the Marshall government’s support for new clean energy technologies such as solar thermal at Port Augusta....

One reason the company’s CEO mentions for moving away from fossil fuels is that “coal is becoming less competitive as the cost of producing renewableenergy steadily falls.”. Not only is the cost for renewableenergy going down, but logically it ......

In energy generation, five times as many are employed in the renewable industry despite subsidies that pale in comparison to massive fossil fuel subsidies ...Renewables produce 99 percent of Costa Rica’s Energy, 36 percent of Germany’s ... Renewables are the future ... It wasn’t the renewable industry’s fault and it wasn’t a lack of energy that caused the summer of 2017 to resemble a disaster movie....

including more renewableenergy generation while preparing the grid – and the poles and wires – for a rapidly changing energy network that is bringing in more solar, batteries, wind, and other future technologies ... It sets out national levels for the mix of renewableenergy and thermal generation such as coal and gas, as well as emission reduction levels, and who will be responsible for ensuring these levels are met....